Swine flu vaccine making kids sick

Inhaler may up risk of asthma in some children


LONDON (Reuters) - A common asthma reliever drug may increase the risk of asthma attacks in some sufferers, British scientists said on Tuesday.
The researchers found that salbutamol, a popular inhaler medicine, as well as salmeterol, an ingredient in GlaxoSmithKline's Advair asthma product, are less effective in children with a specific gene variant and may worsen the health of some patients.
"This is a global question that needs to be addressed," Professor Somnath Mukhopadhyay from Brighton and Sussex Medical School told Reuters.
Salbutamol is called albuterol in the United States and is used widely across the world, the researchers told a news conference in London.
The study showed that asthma patients using their inhaler on a daily basis and who carry the Arg16 gene variant were at a 30 percent greater risk of asthma attacks compared with those with the more usual form of the gene.
The study says the risk is the same with salbutamol, which is short acting, and with salmeterol, which is longer acting.
The study is due to be published in the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology journal this month.
Around 1 million children in Britain have asthma and more than 100,000 carry this gene change, the researchers from Brighton and Sussex Medical School and the University of Dundee said.


The word around town is that the flu vaccine through inhalers is making our kids sick. No one is reporting it.
Also reported is that to be effective, people must now get 2 vaccine
doses 3 weeks apart.
good luck with that.

BEWARE

yeah i signed my kids up at the doctors office to get this but one my friends at my oldests soccer team is a health teacher at a school and he said dont get it because they havent done enough testing on it. he said the fda just approved it because there is big money involved. so i called the doctor and told him to take us off the list.